2010-2
17

The Smile That Change(z)d It All

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The World Trade Center’s twin towers, falling to the pavement beneath, brought rage, disgust, and misery to millions. To Changez, it brought a smile: “I stared as one—and then the other—of the twin towers of New York’s World Trade Center collapsed. And then I smiled.” This quote, from Mohsin Hamid’s “The Reluctant Fundamentalist,” was a turning point in the book.

Throughout the pages prior to this single sentence, Hamid’s novel was just an extravagantly written narrative. The simple three words, “…then I smiled” completely and utterly morphed the novel into something much more than a narrative. It launched head first, into a thriller-esque feel, almost without any type of actual thrill. The question is “Why?” Why did Hamid write something so contradictive and completely offensive? As I have been writing, my brain has been toiling; toiling in effort to explain why Hamid would write off such a tragic incident, perhaps the most tragic in the history of the United States, as something to simply smile about?

With this book, well, more like this sentence, Hamid flip-turned my concept of good and evil. Without really thinking, I’ve always just assumed that anyone that wasn’t an America hating terrorist ached for the people that lost their lives that day. I didn’t understand how anyone, not to mention a Princeton top-of-his-class graduate with a rather elegant job which pays well, could ever smile at the vision of thousands being slaughtered. It’s almost as if Changez’s smile is a statement that declares the United States of America as something much less magnificent.

Maybe I’m completely off point, or maybe Moshin Hamid left the ‘smile’ unexplained for the reader’s sake. Maybe he wanted the reader to understand by writhing in thought. There is so much more to it than pure hatred of America. Now that I think about it, appears that this entire book is written as a critique to show America what the world thinks of it.




2010-2
8

Claudius.

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Claudius has grown progressively more selfish and ill-hearted, especially towards Hamlet, since the beginning of the play. His reasoning behind his action has not changed much since act one. He has always wanted to take over Denmark’s royalty and he succeeded. Although he pretends to feel guilty when praying to God, he immediately jumps back to his own, selfish reality and acknowledges that he doesn’t really care what he did to his brother, his sister-in-law/wife, his step son/nephew or any of the others in Denmark. He likes the “good” things that come along with his scandalous actions: a kingdom to rule, a queen to sleep with, and a crown to wear.

Claudius continues to be extremely selfish and takes advantage of those around him throughout the play. He is able to wrap the women (Ophelia and Gertrude) in his life tightly around his finger. He is often very sly with his words and actions and can easily fool all that are silly enough to believe him. Claudius is given an image of a serpent in Act 1, Scene 5 by the ghost of King Hamlet when he is first speaking to Hamlet. The ghost says that “the serpent that did sting thy father’s life now wears his crown” (I. v. 46-47), which depicts the image of an evil serpent to Hamlet as well as letting him in on Claudius’s dark secret. From this moment on in the play, both the audience and Hamlet realize Claudius’s sins, and are able to take a new perspective when they see Claudius’s actions. Unfortunately, he is a great politician andestablishes a good image for himself when he makes his speech after becoming king of Denmark.

Claudius often makes himself believe that everyone buys into his fatherly, soothing and calming voice. With Gertrude and Ophelia, he is always able to calm them down, even if they are going completely crazy. However, Claudius tries to be much stricter with Hamlet and attempts to treat him sternly, not let him return to school and set boundaries. Claudius thinks that he can boss Hamlet around all that he wants because he is the new king and new “father,” but Hamlet always stands by his views and tries his hardest spill Claudius’s secret. Over the timeline of the play, Hamlet has managed to make Claudius want to kill him even more because Claudius thinks that he can take advantage of Hamlet’s coward behavior.

The image of a serpent is a very good image for Claudius because he truly is the devil and “villain” in the story. He ruins all the sanity and peace left in Denmark just because he is selfish and wants to be the king with benefits.

Jenna McGrail

G period

2009-12
9

Random poems I wrote this semester!!

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Unfamilar faces stare blankly ahead, thoughts circling uncontrollably like a merry go round with out its brakes. Each character has thier way of defining their own uniqueness. A paticular one eyes so vivid and shapes like china doll eyes beautiful and distinctive.

That shameful face staring at me, so dark with hatered as if ur lifeless so pale, cold and priceless
The words you say are lies all lies! you dont surrender.
Time is passing u you get distant and i get stronger!
Dont know if i should slice and dice those lies or to completely cut u off of that shameful face u always show off!
That shameful face so priceless..goodbye

Time is passing , slowly dying.. life so dreadful but then again so simple and meaningful. Slowly getting older and drifting… have to stay strong for what will come, for what the future will hold and for what I become!

You bring me down I stand back up holding my head up high
The struggle is getting deeper but i progress
no time to waste with ur lies and disgrace
have to keep going… have to try
to be strong and move right along!
walking away…so long!

2009-12
7

Strange shoe throwing incident

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Strange shoe throwing incident.

Instead of oops upside the head, or a spanking parents will now threaten their children with a shoe upside the head, in a strange shoe throwing incident that happened earlier today.

An Iraqi reporter named “Muntazer al-Zeidi” listening to G. Bush explaining how he had liberated the country, and put them in situation of independence, one where they would now be able to defend themselves, finally had it and snapped. He took of his shoe, and aimed one after the other at George Bush.

Saying this is for the widows and the orphans, you dog. It’s not clear which widows or orphans he was referring to, but it’s assumed it’s the almost 1 million widows and orphans of Iraq that have been left fatherless since the wars.

http://www.commondreams.org/archive/2008/04/07/8134
http://ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42858

[quote]The Asharq al-Awsat Arab media channel estimated in late 2007 there were 2.3 million widows in Iraq. These include widows from the 1980-1988 war with Iran in which half a million men were killed, the U.S.-led invasion and occupation of Iraq, and from ‘natural’ causes. The news outlet cited the Iraqiyat (Iraqi women) group as a source for their figure.

For a widow, all things are the same, dark.

“Being a widow means being dead in Iraq today,” a professor from Diyala University, speaking on condition of anonymity, told IPS. “This is because of the tremendous responsibilities cast upon her.”

The widows have become victims of the occupation, but also of social codes. Women are not supposed to commit mistakes, and when they do, their mistakes are rarely forgiven. Women are easily accused of doing ‘bad things’, regardless of proof.

Widowed women have a tough struggle on their hands, beyond the loss they have had to live through. They are not easily allowed to work, or even to carry out normal daily activities.

“When a woman breaks these rules, she loses the respect of others, or might be spoken of badly,” a local trader told IPS. “This is because much of rural Iraqi society is primitive and undereducated.” Like most others, the trader did not want his name used, for fear of retribution.

“Islam gives respectable freedom to the woman when she loses her husband,” a religious cleric told IPS. “But because of their ignorance, people place severe restrictions on the woman.”

Millions of lives have been shattered during the occupation. Two groups, Just Foreign Policy in the U.S. and the Opinion Business Research group in Britain estimate the total number of Iraqis who have died due to the occupation to be at least 1.2 million. [/quote]

Apparently throwing a shoe in Iraq is the greatest insult one can issue to another person.

Bush was able to duck and stay clear of the shoe and joked with reporters about it later on, but as you will see in the video below it was a very close call indeed.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxCXBVwUeKk

2009-11
22

How to make ringtone

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The word “ringtone” comes from the English words “ring” and “tone”. It means an incoming call sound of a telephone. Nowadays it is almost a synonym of a melody set as a mobile phone ring.

The first ringtone.
It’s curious that ringtone appeared a little later than a telephone itself. The telephone invented by A. Bell in 1876 didn’t have any ringtone and a call was realized with a whistle. A ring was offered 2 years later in 1878 by T. Watson. But for a long time ringtone was an ordinary bell ring though electric.

The first mentions of the first real ringtones appeared in the middle of the 20th century when the Popular Eletronix journal in 1956 published the article “Telephones will call with melodies”. That article said: “Telephone users will be glad to know that The Bell Telephone Laboratories is working on a new device which will do away with the boring present-day rings. This device that uses transistors will produce nice sounds like ones of a clarinet”.

Probably, one of the most famous and recognizable ringtones is a “Nokia Tune” built into the Nokia telephones as the default ringtone. It appeared in 1994 (and still holds its positions).

What ringtones can be?
Ringtones have been developing gradually; therefore the existent types of ringtones represent the steps of their development.
Monophonic ringtones contain a notes set and any moment only one note can play. The first mobile phones had such ringtones. They were peeping really nasty.

Polyphonic ringtones can play several notes simultaneously. One of such ringtone formats is MIDI. This is the next step of the ringtones development. The phones that have high-quality MIDI sequencer utter melodies with a good quality of sound. These ringtones can play the sounds of different instruments, but they are almost unable to reproduce a voice.

Realtone is modern and the most commonly used format nowadays. The modern digital formats of music (AAC, WMA, MP3, Ogg, etc.) are used to store records. Thanks to them top-charts and other popular melodies are used as the ringtones.

How can you get a rington?
It’s a strange question, isn’t it? You can download it from friends, buy it (there are lots of different content-providers) or create it youself. You can make a ringtone online or by using the appropriate program – for example, SoundForge or CoolEdit.

It is important to remember that the usage of ringtones is restricted by the copyright law. So you can create, sale or exchange ringtones only in agreement with its rightholder, otherwise you may become even criminally responsible.

The most popular ringtones.
Nobody performed such a research, but the hit parade of the ringtones would look like this:

1. Perhaps the most popular ringtones are those ones installed on mobile phones by default. For example, the above-mentioned Nokia Tune. The most people are too lazy to change something.
2. Classical melodies, for example the immortal compositions by Beethoven “The 5th symphony” and “To Elisa”. They are very pleasant to hear and almost never annoy. Well, they may annoy some people only because there are too much of them.
3. Rock and pop hits.
4. Different merry, annoying, loud, unusual melodies like Crazy Frog or the voice-talker “Hello, this is your mobile phone speaking. You’ve got a call”

P.S. make ringtone online with ringtonizer.com!.?

2009-10
30

Make your avatar

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You can make an avatar free online using pikun.ru service. And, at that making an avatar is free, it doesn’t take much time, and the most important is that you don’t need to install any software on your computer.


1. Load a picture for the avatar


Enter http://pikyn.ru/. You can either load an avatar image from a file on your computer or provide a link to the image in Internet. Almost any graphic files can be loaded, such as.jpg,.png,.gif.

You can load a picture from the file (on your computer) by clicking on button “Browse” and select the file you need in the opened window. Then click button “OK”, the dialog will close and you will see the name of the selected file in the text-field on the left side of button “Browse”. Then click “Load” and the file will start loading to the server. The bigger is the size of the file, the longer it takes to load it – please be patient.

You can load an image also by a link in Internet. To do this, please open a page with the image or the image itself in your browser (to find images and photos you can use services like http://images.google.ru or http://images.yandex.ru). Move the mouse pointer to the image and click on it with the right button. A small menu will open where you should find an item with the name like “Copy image location” and click it. Then you should get back to pikyn.ru and in the field “or copy the link here” press the right mouse button and select the item “Paste”. If you’ve done all correctly, a link to your image will appear in the field. Then press “Load” and a file will start loading, please wait a little.

ATTENCION: you should copy a link to a picture, not a link to a page with a picture. Usually a link to a page looks like http://yandex.ru/about.html, and a link to a graphical image like http://img.yandex.net/i/logo95×37x8.png, i.e. Ends with a full stop and several letters, which indicate a type of a graphical file, usually these are.jpg,.jpeg,.png,.gif or.bmp.

LINK COPYING FAILED: If you failed to copy a link (usually in the browser Internet Explorer), don’t lose your hope, you can save the image to your computer and load it as a file. To do this please click with the right button on the image and select an item like “Save picture” or “Save image as” or “Save image”. In the opened window you should show where to save the file with the image, keep in mind the place, click “OK”, the image will save, and then load the saved file as a picture from the file.

After you’ve provided a file or a link press “Load” and the file will start loading to the server. The bigger is the size of the file, the longer it takes to load it – please be patient.


Making an avatar.


Wait till the image is loaded and an avatar making window will open (wait till the message “Please wait until loaded…” is disappeared from the opened page.

In a panel on the left you can select a desired size of the avatar (myspace.com, facebook.com, livejournal, qip, icq, etc.) by clicking on the appropriate menu item. And also select the desired background color by clicking on the necessary color.

On the right side there is a window to make an avatar. The area of the future avatar is marked with a red rectangle. Drag your image with a mouse to select the necessary area for the avatar. Also you can turn the image (by moving a slider near the caption “Turn”) or change its size (by moving a slider near the caption “Scale”).

If you’ve performed all preparatory actions to make the avatar, now press button “make” on the left side of the page and we’ll make your avatar in several seconds.

The avatar free is ready.

After you’ve pressed “make the avatar“, please wait several seconds while the avatar is being made. Shortly you’ll be automatically forwarded to another page where you will see your new avatar. A ready avatar can be downloaded, send by email to yourself or your friend or published in a gallery, where other users could appreciate and comment it.

As you see, makeing an avatar is easy and nothing to be afraid of.

p.s. We wish you to make a nice avatar that you and your friends will like.

2009-10
28

Create avatar

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You can create an avatar online by taking advantage of a magnificent online service picator.com.

Avatar on the Internet is a way of self-expression, a way to personalize yourself on boundless resources. Avatar is a way to make you recognizable. A memorable avatar marks out the owner from the crowd, attracts attention to the comments of the avatar’s owner.

Certainly, you can download an avatar, but a downloaded avatar can be downloaded by other people, so there may be many users with the same avatar. The best way is to create your own, personal, attractive and nice avatar.

What kind of avatar should be created?
The avatar should attract attention, but shouldn’t annoy the site visitors. For example, eyes annoying high-contrast bright red square won’t be good to attract attention. The avatar should stick in memory – you can make several photos of your face with unusual mimicry and create an animated avatar on which you will wink once in several seconds. It may turn out more attractive than endless catlings and doggies. The avatar should be nice and good-looking. A negligent avatar just will alienate other users. A close-up face is good for avatar, and a many times scaled-down photo of you against the background of a large building is bad for avatar.

What you need to create an avatar
Actually, to create an avatar you need only a little time and desire. You can create an avatar online and without spending money on the Photoshop (or stealing it), without troubling over the poor Paint, offered by Windows for image editing. Also you need one or several photos.If you have no photos or you want to use images, you should look for images on the Internet. Popular search systems such as google.com or other offer searching for images service. You can search there and then create an avatar out of the images you’ve found (but remember that you can’t use every found image for avatar because usage of some of them is restricted by the copyright law).

You can save the found images on your computer or immediately upload them to the site and create an avatar out of them just by pointing at the image link (usually, you can get the image link by pressing the right button over the image in a browser and select an item with the text like “save link” from the pop-up menu).

What can I do with the selected images
Having uploaded images to picator.com you can edit them in various ways. You can move them to create a composition. You can rotate them by selecting the correct position (for example, to create a collage by placing friends’ faces in a circle). You can resize and scale them. You can cut out a part of the image to replace the cut part with another image. You can cut off unnecessary parts of the picture (for example, to cut out someone’s face and to stick it to another person).

To create an avatar
In general, you can create an avatar quickly, easily and above all free of charge. Use your imagination and creative thinking – and a nice and attractive avatar or collage will be your award. And if other people like your avatar, it means they like you too, so you attract their attention.

p.s. We wish you to create a cool and interesting avatar!.

2009-10
26

How to make animations

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Make animation with imator.com.

Set animation parameters
Set size ( height and width ) for future animation and set frame display speed.

Upload image files
You need upload several images to make animation. You can use any image file formats as gif,jpeg(jpg),bmp and other. You can upload photos, pictures from your computer or from link location. As alternative you can edit existing animated GIF or upload photos from Picasa or Flickr pfotohosting. Also, it’s possible to add empty frames(without photos ), but you can fill it by selected color. Remember if you upload file from link location, you should use only link to photos in public access. F.e. Your photos in private albums in Flickr, MySpace and other social sites isn’t accessible, because it’s need ask username and password to get it, and it’s not good idea to ask you your private information.

rotate, resize you animation
Animation are make from single frames. When you uploaded any image it became single frame. Select this frame and resize picture, change picture position in frame or rotate it. Use mouse and control elements for it. As additional options it possible to choose background color and frame display time (if choosed “custom” speed). Also set morph between frames checkbox to use smoothly frame change, but remember, that “morph” options strong increase result animation file size;

Add another pictures or photos, so much as you want
Upload up to hungred images. Usually it’s more than enough. If you make very big animation it’s heavy to use, heavy to public it in Internet and very heavy to show it on Internet pages.

Get your own animation
Push ‘make animation’ button and your animation will be made. Use this animation as avatar banner on Internet pages, in social networks.

2009-10
26

Animations

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The word ‘animation‘ comes from the French word ‘animation’ that means enlivening, animation. The synonyms of the ‘animation’ is animated cartoons as a technology and animated cartoons as an art. The main point of the animation is providing ability to move or to bring life into objects, works of art, dead bodies in the invented worlds, etc.

Usually animation is used as a synonym for animated cartoons. But the origins of the terms “animated cartoons” and “animation” are different. For the first time something like animated cartoons appeared in 1977 in France and was called “pracsinoscope”.

The first animations were implemented differently from the cinema that appeared later. But there already was some musical soundtrack synchronized with the appropriate animation. The first popular animated hero was Felix the cat that ten years later was replaced by Micky Mouse. But the main hero of the very best animation ever created was the hedgehog in the animated cartoon “The hedgehog in the Mist”.

Animation creation is a process similar to cinematography. But they use lifeless figures as actors, for example drawn characters, plasticine figures, rag dolls, etc. Although the animation history has examples of combined characters, for example in a feature film “Who Framed Roger Rabbit” living actors and absolutely artificial animated drawn characters exist together. However, the barriers between cinema and animation have been disappearing since the computer technologies development started, because the figures created with a computer can be similar to real people and the number of the abilities to create cinema with animation keeps growing on.

Since the bandwidth of communication channels increased, animation appeared on the Internet and became its integral part adding dynamics to the Internet pages. At first there were animated advertising banners and animated avatars on forums, and later full-length online animation appeared. The first abilities for animation embedding into web pages appeared in 1989 when GIF format was extended to GIF89a. This type of animation is supported by the majority of browsers, thus the animated banners and avatars of this format became wide-spread. It is easy enough to create, represent and store such animation, so GIF animation remains one of the most popular animation formats on the Internet. You can create an animation of this format with special programs or load your photos to create an animated avatar online.

Since Flash technology appeared, animation possibilities on the Internet stepped on a new level. The technology uses vector graphics for conversion (unlike GIF89a which holds animation as raster data), that beyond all bounds extends the possibilities of the created animation but considerably raises requirements to the hardware possibilities of the computer. Using flash animation you can create not only banners, but full-grown sites, since the flash technology provides rich interactive possibilities. As creating flash animation is too difficult for the ordinary user, flash animation isn’t used to create avatars.

Also by means of the flash technology video and games (files with extensions.flv and.swf) are being distributed on the Internet. Such video services as www.youtube.com do not require any recommendations.

The alternative way of gif and flash animation can be programming on JavaScript, SVG. JavaScript allows operating the content of a web page directly in the user browser, and SVG adds support of vector graphics, these together provide rich interactive and animating possibilities for web developers. For example, before the New Year holidays there are falling snowflakes appear on many sites. These snowflakes are the animation created by means of JavaScript.

P.S. If you need an animated avatar you can create it online in gif maker online.

2009-10
22

Second of Four

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Here is the second of four people I grew up with. I did not play grade school football with Lloyd, but did play HS football with him.

Lloyd H. Carr (born July 30, 1945) was the head coach of the University of Michigan football team, a job he held from 1995 until January 2008. Under Carr, the Wolverines record was 122–40, they won or shared five Big Ten titles (in 1997, 1998, 2000, 2003, and 2004), and the 1997 team was declared the Associated Press national champion.[2]

Contents[hide]
  • 1 Youth and education
  • 2 Early coaching career
  • 3 Head coach at Michigan
  • 4 Legacy
  • 5 Activities off the field
  • 6 Coaching record
  • 7 Player accomplishments
    • 7.1 National awards
    • 7.2 Conference honors
    • 7.3 NFL Draft
  • 8 References
  • 9 External links

[edit]Youth and education

Born in Hawkins County, Tennessee, Carr moved with his family to Riverview, Michigan when he was ten years old. [3] Carr’s picture is still shown in the Riverview Community High School gym lobby, he quarterbacked the Pirates to a 1962 State Championship. A talented athlete, Carr played college football at University of Missouri, and later at Northern Michigan University (NMU) while earning his M.A. in education administration. He was a star quarterback at NMU and led the Wildcats to an undefeated season after transferring there from Missouri. He also recently received his honorary phD from the University of Michigan shortly after retiring. [4]

[edit]Early coaching career

Carr’s coaching career began as an assistant at Nativity High School in Detroit (1968–69) and at Belleville High School (1970–73). He became head coach at Westland John Glenn High School in 1973 and earned Regional Class A Coach of the Year honors in 1975 following an 8–1 season.

Carr’s collegiate coaching career started with two seasons as an assistant coach at Eastern Michigan University (1976–77), followed by two seasons as an assistant coach at Illinois (1978–79). Carr then moved on to Michigan where he served as an assistant underBo Schembechler (1980–89) and Gary Moeller (1990–94). Carr was the team’s defensive secondary coach for his first seven seasons and then defensive coordinator from 1987 until 1994. He also held the title of assistant head coach from 1990 to 1994.

[edit]Head coach at Michigan

Carr was named Michigan’s interim head coach on May 13, 1995, following the resignation of Gary Moeller nine days earlier due to off-the-field trouble. Though athletic director Joe Roberson initially declared that Carr was not a candidate in the search for Moeller’s permanent replacement, Roberson reversed his earlier position and gave Carr the job permanently on November 13, 1995 after he posted an 8-2 record through his first ten games as head coach. His very first game as head coach, at home against Virginia in late August 1995, was at the time Michigan’s largest ever comeback win, from 17–0 down.

In 1997, Carr’s team defeated Ohio State, 20–14, making him the third Michigan coach to defeat Ohio State in each of his first three games, following Fielding Yost and FritzCrisler. The Wolverines concluded that season with a win over Washington State in the Rose Bowl, after which Michigan was named national champions by the Associated Press. They were also awarded the MacArthur Bowl bythe National Football Foundation Hall of Fame and the Grantland Rice Award by the Football Writers Association of America, given annually to the nation’s most outstanding football team. For his efforts Carr received the Paul “Bear” Bryant Award and was named the National Coach of the Year.

During the 2003 season, Carr joined Yost, Bennie Oosterbaan and Schembechler as the only coaches in school history to serve for more than 100 career games. The Wolverines also won consecutive Big Ten championships in 2003 and 2004, earning the school’s 18th and 19th appearances in the Rose Bowl game. In 2005, Carr recorded his 100th career victory, against Iowa. He ranks third in school history in career victories, behind only Schembechler (194) and Yost (165).

Wikinewshas related news: American football coach Lloyd Carr retires from Michigan

At a Sunday team meeting, on November 18, 2007, after the completion of the 2007 regular season, Coach Carr told his team that he was retiring after Michigan’s bowl game, and he made his official public announcement at a press conference on Monday, November 19, 2007.

On the eve of his final game versus the defending national champion University of Florida in the 2008 Capital One Bowl, Coach Carr was awarded the Bobby Dodd National Coach of the Year Award.[5]

On January 1, 2008, then-unranked Michigan beat ninth-ranked Florida 41–35 in the 2008 Capital One Bowl to allow Coach Carr to record a win in his final game as Michigan’s head coach. The defending national champion Gators were led by head coach Urban Meyer and Heisman Trophy winner Tim Tebow. In the final AP poll after the game, Michigan ranked No. 18.

[edit]Legacy

Carr was among the winningest active football coaches in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (formerly Division I-A). His teams won five Big Ten titles and the 1997 national championship after beating Washington State in the Rose Bowl. In addition, Michigan was ranked in the Associated Press Top 25 for all but nine of its games under Carr (all occurring in 1998, 2005, and 2007). Only once during his tenure did Michigan end its season unranked (2005). Carr became the first Wolverine coach to win four straight bowl games, beating Auburn, 31–28, on New Year’s Day at the 2001 Florida Citrus Bowl, after leading Michigan to victories in the 1998 Rose Bowl, 1999 Florida Citrus Bowl, and the 2000 Orange Bowl.

Carr was also lauded for his high ethical standards and avoidance of any substantive NCAA violations during his tenure. His integrity was widely lauded as one of his defining characteristics, and a major part of his legacy.

Carr posted a better than .500 or better record against two of Michigan’s three top rivals, going 5–4 against Notre Dame and 10–3 against Michigan State. Carr also recorded a 9–2 record against Penn State.

However, some will remember the struggles he had at the end of his career, most notably that he lost six of his last seven games to Ohio State. Also, Michigan lost five of its six bowl games between the 2001-2006 seasons. And largely due to an ongoing problem with losing road openers (Carr’s Wolverines dropped six in a row at one point), he only had his program in the late-season hunt for the BCS Championship Game once (in 2006) and never reached the game although 11 other college football programs have since its inception in 1998.

[edit]Activities off the field

In addition to his work on the football field, Carr is involved with the University and the community. He has been active in support of women’s athletics, endowing a women’s sports scholarship that is presented annually to a female student-athlete at UM.

Carr has served as the chairperson for the WJR/Special Olympics Golf Outing. He and his wife, Laurie, were also co-chairs of the 2002 Washtenaw County United Way Campaign. Carr serves on the NCAA Rules Committee and is a member of the American Board of Trustees.

Since 2004, an annual summer “Carr’s Wash for Kids” has been held with the proceeds benefiting C.S. Mott Children’s Hospital. Coach Carr has probably been the most visible celebrity raising money for the new Mott hospital building, discussing it often on Michigan Replay and sporting a bracelet showing his support for the hospital for several years.

Carr also hosts the Hall-of-Fame Football Camp in his hometown of Riverview, MI.

[edit]Coaching recordYearTeamOverallConferenceStandingBowlRank#University of Michigan Wolverines(Big Ten Conference) (1995–2007)1995Michigan9-45-3T-3rdLAlamo Bowl191996Michigan8-45-3T-5thLOutback Bowl201997Michigan12-08-01stWRose Bowl1 (tied with Nebraska)1998Michigan10-37-1T-1stWCitrus Bowl121999Michigan10-26-2T-2ndWOrange Bowl†52000Michigan9-36-2T-1stW Citrus Bowl102001Michigan8-46-22ndL Citrus Bowl202002Michigan10-36-23rdW Outback Bowl92003Michigan10-37-11stL Rose Bowl †72004Michigan9-37-1T-1stL Rose Bowl †122005Michigan7-55-3T-3rdL Alamo Bowl2006Michigan11-27-1T-2ndL Rose Bowl †92007Michigan9-46-2T-2ndWCapital One Bowl19Michigan:122-4081-23Total:122-40 National Championship Conference Title Conference Division Title†Indicates BCS bowl game. #Rankings from final Coaches Poll of the season.

[edit]Player accomplishments

In the Carr era, several Michigan players won national and conference awards:

[edit]National awards

  • Heisman Trophy: Charles Woodson (1997)
  • Walter Camp Award: Charles Woodson (1997)
  • Chuck Bednarik Award: Charles Woodson (1997)
  • Bronko Nagurski Trophy: Charles Woodson (1997)
  • Jim Thorpe Award: Charles Woodson (1997)
  • Doak Walker Award: Chris Perry (2003)
  • Dave Rimington Trophy: David Baas (2004)
  • Fred Biletnikoff Award: Braylon Edwards (2004)
  • Lombardi Award: LaMarr Woodley (2006)
  • Ted Hendricks Award: LaMarr Woodley (2006)

[edit]Conference honors

  • Big Ten MVP: Charles Woodson (1997), Chris Perry (2003), Braylon Edwards (2004)
  • Big Ten Offensive Player of the Year: Chris Perry (2003), Braylon Edwards (2004)
  • Big Ten Offensive Lineman of the Year: Jon Jansen (1998), Steve Hutchinson (2000), David Baas (2004), Jake Long (2006-